Who We Are

Our Vision

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We are united in elevating women’s leadership worldwide by educating and empowering our students to be ethical, globally minded changemakers.

Our Purpose

Our Coalition is the leading advocate for girls’ schools, connecting and collaborating globally with individuals, schools, and mission-aligned entities dedicated to educating and empowering girls.

Our Principles

Community & Collaboration: We engage the power of many voices to strengthen our schools, communities, and world.

Equity & Inclusion: We uplift learning communities committed to diversity, equity, justice, and belonging.

Leadership & Integrity: We inspire the next generation of informed global citizens to lead with courage, competence, and empathy.

Opportunity & Innovation: We challenge limits to imagine and explore new possibilities.

Self-efficacy & Agency: We prepare girls for lives of commitment, confidence, contribution, and fulfillment.

Our Practice Areas

Girls’ Schools and ICGS

Educating and empowering students worldwide, the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools (ICGS) is the leading advocate for girls’ schools.

Gender equity and equality is an urgent, enduring, and global imperative, which demands that girls’ schools continue to forge educational spaces where the learning and healthy development of girls is prioritized. Girls’ schools are also intentional places of inclusion and belonging, where students discover who they are and how they want to go forward in the world. ICGS member schools are therefore called upon to recognize each student as an individual, to create and maintain learning communities that foster the full scope of healthy identity development, and to acknowledge the compounding disadvantages of intersectionality, while also honoring their institutional identities in accordance with their school missions, policies, and practices.

Girls’ schools have long been vital leaders for social and gender equity and equality, and they will long continue to be.